Juvenalian

Juvenalian, characteristic of or written in the manner of the Roman poet Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis, c. 65 AD—c. 135), whose sixteen verse satires are fierce denunciations of his fellow‐Romans in general and of women in particular for their mercenary lives. Juvenalian satire is the kind of satire that bitterly condemns human vice and folly, in contrast with the milder and more indulgent kind known as Horatian satire. In English, Samuel Johnson's poems London (1738) and The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) are both imitations of Juvenal, but the satires of Jonathan Swift come closer to Juvenal's uncompromisingly disgusted tone.